The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (Educational Edition)

xxi, 1171 pp. One-volume edition. Illustrated by J. F. Horrabin. CONTENTS: The Earth In Space and Time; The Record of the Rocks; Natural Selection and the Changes of Species; The Invasion of the Day Land by Life; The Age of Reptiles; The Age of Mammals; The Ancestry of Man; The Neanderthal, Men, an Extinct Race (The Early Palaeolithic Age); The Later Postglacial Palaeolithic Men, the First True Men (Later Palaeolithic Age); Neolithic Man in Europe; Early Thought; The Races of Mankind; The Languages of Mankind; The First Civilizations; Sea Peoples and Trading Peoples; Writing; Gods and Stars, Priests and Kings; Serfs, Slaves, Social Classes, and Free Individuals; The Hebrew Scriptures and the Prophets; The Aryan-Speaking Peoples in Prehistoric Times; The Greeks and the Persians; Greek Thought in Relation to Human Society; The Career of Alexander the Great; Science and Religion at Alexandria; The Rise and Spread of Buddhism; The Two Western Republics; From Tiberius Graccchus to the God-Emperor in Rome; The Caesars Between the Sea and the Great Plains of the Old World; The Beginnings, the Rise, and the Divisions of Christianity; Seven Centuries in Asia (Circa 50 B.C. to A.D. 650); Muhammad and Islam; Christendom and the Crusades; The Great Empire of Jengis Khan and His Successors (The Age of the Land Ways); The Renascence of Western Civilization (Land Ways Give Place to Sea Ways); Princes, Parliaments, and Power; The New Democratic Republic of America and France; The Career of Napoleon Bonaparte; The Realities and Imaginations of the Nineteenth Century; The International Catastrophe of 1914; The Next Stage of History; A Chronological Table from 800 B.C. to 1920; Five Time Charts of the World's Affairs from 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1920; Index.